Top 10 Reasons Mario Kart 8 Is Overrated

The Top Ten

1Roster

If you remove the counterparts in metals/babies/koopalings, you're just left with roster from the last handheld game! Talk about crappy padding.

This is the worst roster in the Mario Kart franchise because some Nintendo staff members chose to come up with 7 pathetic clone characters to replace a veteran's spot like Diddy Kong's. FIRE THE HEAD OF MK Nintendo, HE MUST HAVE A DRINKING PROBLEM! Don't tell me that the baby princesses are radical, they are pathetic! BUt, at least Kamek will be introduced to the roster once some better people are hired. They could've replaced those 7 clones with worthy veterans like Dixie and Diddy Kong, Dry Bones, King Boo, Honey Queen, Kamek, and Birdo, but NO, they came up with 7 stupid clone characters for the roster. Oh my god, this roster is horribly redundant.

Half a roster of garbage counterparts and not enough individuals.

Total garbage roster! What was the head of Mario Kart 8 thinking when Nintendo replaced fantastic characters like Honey Queen, Dry Bones, Birdo, King Boo, Petey Piranha, Diddy Kong, Dixie Kong, and Kamek with rubbish ones like Metal Peach, Metal Mario, and the 5 babies? Even Funky Kong is better than those 7.

The racer in second recieves 3 red shells while the poor soul in ninth gets coins and single mushrooms?

Unlike previous kart games, now you can only hold the items you receive? What the suck? That is lame because you can't really deploy an item to deflect a red shell item.

The Nintendo staff members who came up with the Spiny Shell item should be fired!

Ok first of all I don't think half the people underneath me have ever played Mario kart before because first of all, THE ITEMS ARE RANDOM. In Mario kart 8 you get better items the closer you are to last place which is perfect in my opinion, imagination how unfair it would be if the person in first got a bullet bill or if the last place guy only got coins and green/red shells. You guys need to understand that you don't always get the item you want and you just need to deal with it. And the blue shell, even though I deal with a lot of those, is a good item if the first place person is way in front, also to that guy who said "now you can only hold items you receive" and "that's lame because you can't really deploy an item to deflect a red shell item" you need to hold down the ZL button dummy. Can you understand this because sometimes I wonder. 😡

Now, the battle mode contains arenas remixed from a regular Grand Prix course and hardly distinguishable from a regular kart race. What the HECK? Nintendo, you're going to take out one of the best features of the game, which would have been easy to replicate or improve upon, and slap the name on a rehashed racing mode? That is just shoddy labor.

Now the battle mode courses horribly redundant. They tried to copy 8 of the Grand Prix courses and paste them into the Battle Mode. UGH! That's just shoddy, boring, and horrifying labor, Nintendo!

MK8 puts more focus on racing than actual fighting. "Battle Mode" is just the ability to drive backwards without Lakitu popping up on the screen. People are racing normally and hitting people as they go by. I love the anti-gravity aspect and the ability to mix-and-match Karts, but Battle Mode is the worst. - BlueTopazIceVanilla

Pink Gold Peach just took up a spot that could've gone to Dry Bones. She is the reason why Mario Kart 8's roster is lanky. I want to kick the 5 babies and the 2 gold characters out and replace those 7 with Honey Queen, Dry Bones, Dixie Kong, Birdo, Diddy, Kamek, and King Boo and that right there is a perfect roster. They could've introduced Kamek and Dixie Kong to the new Mario Kart character spotlight. But NO, Pink Gold Peach instead!

I can't believe Mario Kart 8 is high on the "Top 10 Mario Kart Games That Shouldn't Be On the Worst List" list. And why is "Double Dash" top 1?! Mario Kart 64 should be top 1!

I would rather replace this metal strand of hell with Honey Queen and Dry Bones, force Peach as a locked character, or make Daisy as the default character.

Even the retro tracks were nerfed. Yoshi Circuit is missing a number of piranha plants and the minecarts in Wario's Goldmine are no longer obstacles. The original rainbow road is nowhere near the nightmare it use to be.

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Why is this useless item still present?

Really stupid. If you've played the course hundreds of times you'll know it like the back of your hand. They are only "challenging" when you first get the game. - BlueTopazIceVanilla

7Nerf Starman

Outside the sucking battle arenas and the bland roster, the head of Mario Kart 8 decreased the Starman power.

Thank god we didn't have to look at a plethora of Funky Kong on Flame Runner Harleys. That was a large issue in Mario Kart Wii. This setup hacked online. Everybody found that sickening Grumble Volcano shortcut for that course using that combination.

Funky is slang for whoever is way overused for online gameplay.

10Re-Reused Tracks

That's only in the DLC packs guys.

Honestly I don't mind this. Plus their going to have to do this anyway if their going to do retro tracks

I still find it weird how DK doesn't have a console track (either new or retro). He just has the track from the last handheld game.

The Contenders

11Firehopping

Can't they just return the firehopping trick instead of making this game suck?

Fire hopping is an exploit and it should be removed to make things fairer.

12Baby PeachBaby Peach is the infant version of the major character from the Mario Series, Princess Peach. She is mostly known for her appearances in the Mario Kart Franchise in Mario Kart Wii and Mario Kart 8 as a playable character, but she also appears in other Mario games, including Yoshi's Island DS, in which ...read more.

Sometimes I wonder... is that a pacifier or bubble gum sticking out of her mouth - Katekat123

I think all of the babies eat gum during a race but somehow it is a pacifier.

The babies creep me out and the two gold characters

13Princess PeachPrincess Peach is a major character in the Mario Bros. Franchise. She is usually the character who needs saved in most Mario Games, but also has appeared as a playable character in the Main-Series Mario Games, including Super Mario 3D World, Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Run, and even starred in ...read more.

She Appeared In Every Game! That's It! I'm Starting To Like SEGA! - CuteGirlJigglypuff

Morons. Peach is the main female character. This hate on Peach is DUMB. - DCfnaf

Nobody wants this stupid "damsel in distress" 'character', she is TERRIBLE! - KennyRulz244444

15People Say This Is Better Than All Mario Kart Games That Are Older Than Mario Kart: Double Dash!!!

Please, calm down, whoever wrote this title. Mario Kart 8 is much better than all other Mario Kart games, but it's just my opinion. NOT because of the ruined Battle Mode, roster, or Coins, but because of the anti-gravity, and the amazing track design.

The best thing about Mario Kart 8 would definitely be the anti-gravity and the worst thing about this game being the Princess characters (Rosalina rocks, though Baby Rosalina is cool) and their clones/baby selves!

Please respect people's opinion. - HeavyDonkeyKong

I meant to say "People say that modenr Mario games are better than classic Mario games.

16Baby RosalinaBaby Rosalina is an infant version of the major character from the Mario Bros . Franchise, Rosalina . She first appeared in Mario Kart 8 as a playable character and is now one of 5 baby characters in the roster, alongside infant versions of Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, and Princess Daisy .

Please go away and we could replace Baby rosalina with some clever characters rather than having another clone!

She contradicts Rosalina. - DCfnaf

17The Controls

The A button is your gas pedal, but the bottom left trigger is for shooting items. What the HECK!

18Mario Kart 64 Is Way Better Than This

It's not. Cry me a river nostalgiatards. - DCfnaf

No sorry. - DaisyandRosalina

19Tough Controls

Controls are the easiest in the series! - DCfnaf

Who ever added this to the list, just sucks at Mario kart 8

20Focused Way Too Much On Graphics

That's a good thing... - DCfnaf

21Gamerscore Addition/Subtraction System

22Lightweights Are Nearly Useless

You have to be a fatty for a solid chance of victory.

Poor Toad. He was so useless, thanks to the bastardized Nintendo. - KennyRulz244444

And that's why I made my Mii bigger.

My story of Mario kart in this. Comet>Slim>MKTV Parafoil is my combination along with one of the fatties.